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Construction of the administration building at Bindoon, Western Australia

This photograph shows a boy shovelling building material within the half-constructed walls of the administration building of Bindoon. Another boy is standing above him on some scaffolding. This webpage this photograph was published on is no longer in operation. This URL was taken from The Wayback Machine and is dated 22 November 2012.

First taste of Australian milk

This is a digitised illustrated newspaper article from 1947 about the first party of post-war child migrants from Britain to arrive in Australia.

Advice of admission of a child to an institution and claim for additional child endowment

This is a copy of a form used by the Commonwealth Department of Social Services in the 1970s to administer child endowment payments to institutions. This form was provided to the Find & Connect web resource by Berry Street’s Heritage and Background Information Service and has been redacted to protect the privacy of individuals.